Business Continuity Planning
Effective business continuity planning helps minimize the uncertainty of potential business disruptions by creating a framework to maintain and recover business processes should a disruption occur.
ISO 27001 requires appropriate business continuity and contingency planning. Compliance with this internationally recognized standard is growing in importance. Today, many hedge fund investors view a Business Continuity Plan as a prerequisite to capital allocation. If you have a service contract with any publicly traded company your SLA will require you to have a Business Continuity Plan. This extends beyond technology to focus on the critical operations and processes that you must have available if a disruption in business occurs.
But how do you achieve this? How do you manage the compliance process? How do you know where you stand in relation to the demands of the standard?
This is where we come in. We have performed Business Continuity Planning for large, medium and small firms of all sizes. This includes Pacific Bell, SBC, AT&T, Motorola, General Electric, the US Navy, Rodopi Software, Pite Duncan LLP, Envininet and others.
Our methodology includes:
Risk Assessment
Identify and prioritize potential business risks and exposures
Business Impact Analysis
Identify the business unit’s resource requirements
Develop recovery strategies for department, division and sites
BCP Testing, Training & Maintenance
Conduct regular training and testing exercises.
Conduct continuous BCP maintenance on an as-needed basis